[Construction Section 38]
SUBSECTIONS OF THE BUILDING INDUSTRY
4. CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTIONS
Today civil engineering a field of the building industry is called, which is concerned with planning, construction and establishment of technical buildings. One calls civil engineerings that one, usually large, buildings, for whose establishment special technical and constructional computations and unusual statics are necessary, or technical materials to the employment comes in.
The modern trend engineer art
The civil engineering art unites special requirements in the wing unit draft and the architectural organization with engineering structures. Some examples of such civil engineerings are olympia stadiums, widespread congress or machinery buildings, outstanding bridges and towers windmills loaded strongly by church towers and TV towers, tunnel projects with difficult geology, unusual caverns and dams or.
Also an apparently usual larger building can by a particularly needed kind of the establishment, as for instance with water entrance or in sediment basins also tonus in accordance with or loose rock, which provoke art of engineer.
Famous historical work examples are:
Likewise many historical buildings are to be classified as expressed civil engineerings:
- The measurement of the pyramids of Gizeh or the water tunnel of Hiskia in Jerusalem
- The telescopes of the observatories of Paris or Vienna or installing of the large mirror at the Mount Palomar
- The Roman aquaducts or the mountain spring water supply to the Hochschwab
- The antique puncture the Sues channel
- The Kolosseum and similar larges buildings with sophisticated safety engineering
- The Hagia Sofia in Istanbul Turkey as world-wide the first large large dome
- Or some the seven world miracles,
- The reorganization of the tears in the Peter cathedral
- The first mountain course over the Semmering, the first God hard tunnel or the viaducts in the Odenwald
- The such unnecessary, ships of the Wikinger end
- The bridges over the trichloroethylene Anna ravine or the Firth OF Forth
- And many other works.